Talk:Jeffrey J. McDonnell

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Employed by the University of Saskatchewan and supervised by Jeffrey J. McDonnell

@HickoryOughtShirt?4: The changes I made to the article were biographical. I did use good references and had added much needed detail. Please revert the article to my last edit and send me the specific details that you take issue with. I have now declared my COI and I'm happy to use the request an edit function. But please go back to the much better version of this article.

Kfjkfj, Thanks for declaring your COI. Your additions were not well-sourced. You entirely removed the source for his education and the sentence He was Richardson Chair in Watershed Science and then University Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University in the Department of Forest Engineering from 199-2021. He has been Professor and Associate Director at the Global Institute for Water Security.... was literally just sourced to the webpage for the Global Institute for Water Security. Where's the source for being the Richardson chair? HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 00:45, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@HickoryOughtShirt?4: Today there was something really glitchy with the cite function. The numbers and the ref list were not matching up. I didn't know how to fix it. I actually notice a bunch of issues with the referencing. This had not been an issue before today. I think it is really strange that you only cite one PhD student when he has had many? That single source seems to me to be some kind of COI? I'm happy to go back and forth between your version and mine, but I have way more information and happy to source correctly. When I read the introduction to editing Wikipedia it said be bold and don't worry about mistakes. I'm totally new to this, I'm really enjoying it and I'm happy to fix the things that I'm getting wrong, leave out what is inappropriate. If you would allow me to take out things that go against the Wikipedia way I would appreciate it. Why did you take out the photo and change the infobox?

Kfjkfj, I am very happy to work alongside you to improve the article. Re: the doctoral student; We are only supposed to list ones with Wikipedia articles. If you draft the content you wish to add and post it here, I (or another editor) will review it and add it. This is typically how COI editing works. You can even use your sandbox (User:Kfjkfj/sandbox) and ping me when you're done. This is a way we editors implement checks and balances. As well, the pings only work if you sign your comments with four ~. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 02:46, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]